Deep Water Bay – Mother’s Day! Which genius had the brilliant idea to schedule Deep Water Bay a day after the Stanley Warm Up Race AND on Mother’s Day?

Going into the first heat at 0900hrs there was one simple objective – come first or second and avoid the Repechage, thus giving the family men in the crew a few precious hours to wander off and spend with their wives and kids. We were up against the Firemen (AGAIN! Didn’t we see enough of them yesterday?) who predictably took P1 in 2:14.22 while we sailed into P2 in 2:17.86. Mission accomplished!

The semi final was our most glorious moment of the day, as we won it with style and form – and importantly, against the RHKYC, which doesn’t like to be beaten – and certainly not by us!

But the X Men restored their pride in the final, chasing the Firemen (NEE NAA NEE NAA…) into a solid P2 and relegating the Sha Tin Fishermen into third and us off the podium into fourth. The heavens agreed that this result was a travesty of justice and promptly opened up and drenched the beach in the greatest torrential rain ever seen!